When I was dancing with Trisha, one of the task dances we did was Sticks (1973). Lying on the floor, holding a 6-ft-long stick horizontally above my chest, I proceeded to maneuver myself up to my knees and around the stick and back to lying on my back again—all the while keeping my stick connected […]
Trisha Brown Dance Company The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC September 30–October 3, 2010 Reviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa Walking on the Wall at the Whitney. Photo by Graham E. Newhall, courtesy TBDC. Shifting. Drifting. Peering from windows. Glancing up and gazing down. Avid audiences kept on the go within and around […]
The exhibit on Trisha here in Lyon covers Trisha from A to Z, if there can be such a thing without live dancers. (The actual performances were last week before I got here.) It gives a luscious opportunity to contemplate her work over time. Seeing the video of her in the rooftop piece (early 70s), […]
The men in Trisha Brown’s company never got to do Spanish Dance, that slowly advancing line of swaying hips and spooning bodies. So yesterday at my last talk on Trisha at DTW, six post-Trisha choreographers and I did Spanish Dance to “break the ice” before our talk. No one had access to the Dylan song, […]
Trisha Brown Dance Company Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYC April 7–11, 2010 Reviewed by Susan Yung Leah Morrison and Nicholas Strafaccia in Brown’s Opal Loop. Photo by Julieta Cervantes, Courtesy TBDC. The title of Trisha Brown’s Opal Loop/Cloud Installation #72503 (1980) is full of improbabilities, just like her choreography. “Opal” evokes something milky, glittering, obdurate; […]
It was the kind of experience you’d want to share with someone you love: quiet, expansive, sensual, revelatory. So many c ouples made the trek to Beacon, NY for a romantic viewing of Trisha Brown’s early work at Dia: Beacon. Floor of the Forest found a home in the Chamberlain gallery, where his crushed car parts […]
Trisha Brown Dance Company Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC April 29–May 2, 2009 Reviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa Brown’s L’Amour au théâtre. Photo by Stephanie Berger, courtesy BAM. Trisha Brown’s dances are unlocked houses that never wait for us to wander inside. Instead, they reach out, from the first moment, quietly, gently breaking […]
Trisha Brown Dance Company The Joyce Theater, NYC February 5–10, 2008 Reviewed by Eva Yaa Asantewaa What becomes a (famously modest) legend most? Creeping across the bare bricks at the rear of a darkened stage? Scooting around two “robots”—plain cardboard tubes attached to remote-controlled chasses? The New York premiere of Trisha Brown’s I love my […]
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